Curriculum Vitae:
Agnès Voisard received her Master's and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from the University of Paris at Orsay (Paris XI) and INRIA (French National Research Institute in Computer Science and Control) in 1989 and 1992, respectively. During the academic year 1991-92 she was a research assistant in the database group of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (CNAM) in Paris. In 1992-93 she was an INRIA postdoctoral fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich. In 1993, she was appointed assistant professor of computer science at the Free University of Berlin, where she obtained her Habilitation in 1999. Between January and May 2001, she was system architect at Kivera, Inc. (Oakland, California). Her areas of expertise include geographic information systems, object-oriented databases, data modeling, graphical user interfaces, navigation systems, and interoperability in information systems. She has participated in several program committees, was general chair of the 5th International Symposium on Spatial Databases (SSD?97) and is program co-chair of the international ACM GIS conference (to be held in November 2003). With Philippe Rigaux and Michel Scholl, she co-authored the book "Spatial Databases: With Application to GIS" published by Morgan Kaufmann in 2001.